Please see Call for Papers for an edited collection below.
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Ann
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Expanding the Gaze: Gender, Public Space, and Surveillance
Deadline: September 15, 2012
The past decade has witnessed an explosion of scholarship covering the
broad area of surveillance studies. Surveillance, or the ability to
engage in what David Lyon (2003) calls ‘social sorting’, is understood
by social scientists to be key to neoliberal governance, in large part
because of its capacity to reconfigure both public space and forms of
citizenship. And yet, to date, very little scholarly work
systematically considers the gendered dimensions of, and experiences
with, surveillance. The little research that does exist indicates the
need for more in-depth study. This edited collection seeks to engage
with contemporary studies on surveillance by expanding the gaze to
include a critical analysis of gender and public space.
The aim of the collection is to capture a wide range of gendered
experiences, identities, and subjectivities, including, but not
limited to, those of ‘women’. By public space we are referring to
those places to which the public has reasonable expectations of
access. This space might be privately owned, public space, or a
hybrid; it may be physical (e.g. shopping malls, city streets) or
virtual (e.g. public on-line profiles and social media platforms).
Surveillance itself may be technological (e.g. CCTV) or informal (e.g.
‘eyes on the street’). The key uniting theme of ‘Expanding the Gaze:
Gender, Public Space, and Surveillance’ is the ways that the
dimensions of gender, public space, and surveillance interact to
produce particular configurations that have yet to be fully explored.
This call for papers seeks innovative feminist and/or intersectional
scholarship for an interdisciplinary edited collection of original
works. We welcome submissions from a variety of perspectives and
academic disciplines, including: communication studies, criminology,
geography, law, sexuality studies, socio-legal studies, sociology,
and/or women’s and gender studies. Papers may be theoretical or
empirical in nature.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Surveillance, bodies, and forms of citizenship
- Sexuality/ies and surveillance
- Masculinity/ies and surveillance
- Gendered resistance to surveillance
- Gender and urban CCTV
- Surveillance and the intersectionality of gender, race, and class
- Queer and trans perspectives on, and experiences with, surveillance
technologies
- Media/cinematic representations of surveillance
- Relationships between the watchers and being watched
Abstract submission:
Interested contributors should send a 300-500 word abstract and 200
word bio to [log in to unmask] no later than September 15, 2012.
Those invited to contribute to the collection will be notified in
October 2012 and full papers will be due in April 2013.
Please direct questions to collection editors:
Emily van der Meulen, [log in to unmask]
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Amanda Glasbeek, [log in to unmask]
Department of Social Science (Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies)
York University, Toronto, Canada.
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